A Mining Trinity

Three Hulks working the hole is worth 10 in the hangar....

 

Any successful wardec should put a stop to industrial activities, key word 'should'. The crew harvesting Arkonor at an undisclosed location.

Inner Sphere Industries Military Commendation Medal

Presented by Waren Bufet on behalf of Inner Sphere Industries on May 24, 2011, 17:14 hours Jita Time.


It gives me get pride to announced that I have given Shaddai Zenjii The Inner Sphere Industries Military Commendation Medal for his quick thinking and action while under fire.

Shaddai Zenjii was running a mission with some fellow corp mates when a ninja looter came into the mission site. The order was given by the FC to shoot the ninja looter which was quickly followed by “oh shit it is a trap”. Five other ships with the ninja looter warped in and warp scam Shaddai. Everyone else in the fleet made it out but the ninja looters where there for Shaddai Navy Apocalypse ship. Instead of just giving up, Shaddai quickly assessed the situation and decided his only option was to self destruct his ship to deny the ninja looters their kill mail. Then with only five sec left on the self destruct timer the ninja looters deactivated their warp scrambler. Most likely they where trying to get a pod kill. Shaddai noticed that he has no longer warp scrammed and within split seconds warped his ship out and deactivated the self destruct. There by saving his Navy Apocalypse ship and giving the ninja looters the finger as he warped off.

For these actions Shaddai Zenjii has earned The Inner Sphere Industries Military Commendation Medal.

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Special Corporate Notice presented by CEO Lance Ducatillon on May 25, 2011, 01:47 Jita Time.

Fucking-A right he earned it! Nicely done Shaddai Zenjii. This medal will be aka the "James Tiberius Kirk" award for not believing in a no win scenerio.

POS Fuel Truckers

We successfully completed getting a load of Ice Fuels into the WH for the POS. Pretty solid operation as I took a full load from Sam; Max picked up the rest in an Orca and brought it to the rendezvous system from Jita. I was ahead of Max far enough that it enabled me to bring out excess PI for sell. Three full loads of PI should make for a good profit share. Finn kept a weather eye on the low sec gate and all went well.

Overall a very quiet night. We needed that tonight, sometimes the Eve gods are good to you. Usually right before they smash you down.

Surprise Attack

After the R&R was over I rendezvoused with the crew and the Rook and headed to meet up with the mostly rookie crew working the wormhole. Of course along the way my usual devious plan popped into my head.

After a dozen or so jumps, a quarter of which was in low sec, I successfully inserted into the wormhole unknown to the unsuspecting noobs. In order for my plan to work I had to switch ships and gear up and hope they did not notice me on the scanners.

I warped into the POS and switched ships but saw on my scanners an incoming noob. I had to jump out quick and as soon as I cleared the shields I cloaked up. The incoming noob actually saw on his scanners the Rook I was in and sounded the alarm. This brought the whole mining party back to the POS and as is SOP they jumped into probers and combat ships hoping to catch the "intruder". I had successfully warped away in my stealth bomber with them none the wiser thinking an enemy Rook was in the system.

Smiling to myself and cloaked up in my safe spot my self gloating was short lived as I was interrupted by my first officer. She notified me that all we had on board were concussion bombs that would most likely destroy the retrievers, possibly destroy any of the haulers and damage the Hulks. I had to smile and laugh an evil laugh at the thought but decided against using the concussion bombs, after all this was just supposed to be a lesson.

Now the problem was, how do I exchange out my bombs for void bombs that would just suck their cap down? It quickly hit me, Finn Morgan would do it. Finn will do anything for ISK but this he did for free because he liked the idea of screwing with the noobs. He managed to pick up a couple of void bombs and brought them out to my safe spot, jettisoned them then flew off to get a front row seat of the action.

Switching the bombs took a bit of time but that was fine, it took them awhile but the gave up the chase on the Rook. Again I laughed, it took them awhile to give up on finding a Rook that did not exist. Finally the time arrived. I was able to warp in cloaked up and setup for the bomb run. At 30km we de-cloaked and let loose our fury. Bomb was away and inbound before I fully decloaked; the torpedo was homing in on the jetcan they were filling up. By the time they saw the explosion I was already cloaked up and laughing my ass off.

The best part is always hearing and seeing the chat channels: "VOID BOMB!!", "What was that?", "Where did the can go?", "Did you guys see Lance?", "Hey, what just happened, my cap is empty?!". I think Finn shit himself he laughed so hard.

As fun as it was though, these guys did really well. I believe we only ended up attacking 3 of the 6 in the hole do mostly to the alertness of Rook alert. These guys did real good for noobs on their first wormhole outing. This should be a good crew, let's see how it pays out in ISK.

Rest and Relaxation, Planetside

I met up with another pilot for a little R&R recently. We decided we needed to hone our sharpshooting skills  in earth norm gravity. Here's Mattrixx taking aim on golf ball at 25 yards.

Here he is AFTER he hit it!

Shhhh, I counted 8 shots before he hit it. But he did hit it.

That was Close, Too Close

Obviously I survived, since you're reading this. If I were Amarrian I would take our survival as a word from on high but since I'm not, it was sheer Caldari discipline and luck that made it all work out.

Turns out my second officer had ordered her shuttle to set a destination for a tropical planet which was supposed to be uninhabited deciding to maroon themselves there and at least live. She had also ordered the other shuttle to follow them. When they arrived at the planet and found a small and long forgotten Caldari military outpost they were ecstatic. They were able to obtain the part we needed and returned to the ship just in time to keep me from freezing to death.

I have just finished being 'warmed up' by my first officer during which I showed my utmost gratitude and awarded her a much deserved promotion. Since a ship can have only 1 Captain, she's hereby granted shuttle 1 commander status with all the rights and responsibilities of that command.

Out of Gas

Looks like this might be my last entry. We've lost life support and are adrift at the corner of no and where. It's all due to an explosion in the engine room that has taken out the main life support system as well as the auxiliary. 

I sent the crew out in a couple of shuttles in hopes they would be able to make contact with someone, but there is little hope of that. I am behind enemy lines, of course so even if they are found they will just be captured, or killed. Still, that would be better than freezing to death in this tin can.

The Captain always stays with the ship.

Taking it Down

Wow, one of our quickest and hopefully best harvests yet. We started out with sleeper signatures and the harvest went quickly. Now we've come upon a sizable asteroid belt. The refinery is almost full of its first run of Arkonor. Should the skies hold, it will be a nice harvest.....

At Home in the Unknown

The crew and the ship are alive, an extension of my mind. The cold solace of this empty place allows my mind to rest, to focus like a laser on my surroundings. Scanners clear and we're running dark. No more than a shadow in the darkness, even less on enemy scopes. The calm before the storm.

The crew is rested, ready and focused on the task of harvesting. The POS is being fueled and the signatures scanned. Plenty of work, even more ISK to be made.

This unknown system, the place I call home, beckons.....

Breathtaking

I get asked why I choose this life among the stars. Sometimes, it's for the sheer awe of it all....

Inbound to Unknown

It's that time once again. Time to get back to work and make some ISK. I've had enough snooping around in NPC Null Sec. Last time we did this operation we brought in over a Billion ISK for the profit shares. It would be very nice to do that again.

Ice Mining Op

Hi Sec Ice mining op. POS Fuel.... nice.

On the Move

It's been a fast paced couple of weeks and not the greatest time to come down with a cold. Amazing that in all these eons mankind has not found a cure for such a common ailment.

Anyway, the last couple of weeks has brought about a record breaking profit run in the wormhole and a new alliance. We'll be working in some NPC 0.0 space which I am interested in seeing how we can make a profit in that market.

Overall the corporation is expanding and we're developing a really good team. Although I haven't been as active due to this cold, the crew is really pulling together and is running well. StoneCold Riddick has stepped up shown the ability to lead mining ops so he's been made the new director, at least until we find someone better or he dies.

Company Script

I'm thinking of taking a lead from the old mining camps on the earth that was and issue Company Script. It used to work like this.

The mining company would hire a miner to work the mine and would pay him with company script. The company script could only be spent in the company store of the company who issued it. Miner's were given housing and of course since the housing was provided by the company, rent was deducted from the miner's paycheck. As were his tools, clothes, boots, etc. Food was also bought at the company store.

There was an old song which went, "Another day older and deeper in debt.I owe my soul to the company store.

If I were to do this, here's what the script might look like:

Right now Bhodi Zatfa is testing my plan.

Hulk Force Four......and a Retriever